Manual Chapter :
Create a license usage report schedule
Applies To:
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 7.0.0
Create a license usage report schedule
Before you can create a license usage billing report schedule, you must be in a role with
permissions to view and modify utility billing reports.
If F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management cannot
access
api.f5.com
or pass
traffic through port 443, you must manually submit the report to F5 Networks
instead of submitting automatically. Manually submit your report to vesubscriptions@f5.com
.You create a schedule so that BIG-IQ can
automatically license generate usage reports at the same time every month for all your utility licenses.
- At the top of the screen, clickDevices.
- On the left, click .
- Click theSchedulebutton at the top of the screen.
- ForSchedule Status, select theEnablecheck box.
- SelectAutomatically submit report to F5for theSubmission Method.If BIG-IQ cannot accessapi.f5.comor pass traffic through port 443, you must manually submit the report to F5 Networks offline, instead of submitting it from BIG-IQ. For information about how to manually submit the report offline, contact F5 Support.
- Specify theDay of the Month(from1to28), theStart timehour(from0to23) andminute(from0to59) that you want BIG-IQ to create the utility reports.
- If you want to obscure the device's host name and IP address in the report, selectYesforObfuscate Data.
- If you want BIG-IQ to send an email when the report is created, select theEnablecheck box forEmail Notification, and type one (or more) email address(es) in the box, separated by commas.
- Click theSave & Closebutton.
BIG-IQ will create license usage reports on the day
of the month and the time you specified. If you enabled email notification, BIG-IQ also
sends a notification to the email address(es) specified to let them know the reports are
available. When BIG-IQ successfully generates the report and submits it to F5 Networks,
it also displays it in the reports list.
